Fields of Research

Speech pathology
Allied health and rehabilitation science
Community child health

Research Objectives

Allied health therapies (excl. mental health services)
Provision of health and support services
Clinical health
Public health (excl. specific population health)
Diagnosis of human diseases and conditions

Career Best Publications

Research Publications

A preliminary evaluation of a manualised intervention to improve early literacy skills in children with Developmental Language Disorder; Child Language Teaching and Therapy
A profile of expressive inflectional morphology in early school-age children with developmental language disorder; Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics
Combining implicit and explicit intervention approaches to target grammar in young children with Developmental Language Disorder; Child Language Teaching and Therapy
Does otitis media affect later language ability? A prospective birth cohort study; Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
Evaluating two different dose frequencies and cumulative intervention intensities to improve past tense production for early school-aged children with developmental language disorder; International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders
Explicit grammar intervention in young school-aged children with developmental language disorder: an efficacy study using single-case experimental design; Language, Speech and Hearing Services in Schools
How we measure language skills of children at scale: A call to move beyond domain-specific tests as a proxy for language; International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
Improving practice through clinical research: using single case experimental design to answer a clinical question; Journal of Clinical Practice in Speech-Language Pathology
Language sample analysis: a powerful tool in the school setting; Journal of Clinical Practice in Speech-Language Pathology
The clinical application of SALT to evaluate intervention program effectiveness in a school context; Journal of Clinical Practice in Speech-Language Pathology
The efficacy of an explicit intervention approach to improve past tense marking for early school-age children with developmental language disorder; Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
The health professionals’ perspectives of support needs of adult head and neck cancer survivors and their families: a Delphi study; Supportive Care in Cancer
The prevalence of and potential risk factors for developmental language disorder at 10 years in the Raine Study; Journal of Paediatrics and Childhood Health
The uses of outcome measures within multidisciplinary early childhood intervention services: a systematic review; Disability and Rehabilitation

Research Projects

Research Candidate Supervision